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When will you get it???

LabCrap does not care about Patients, Doctors or Employees!

It's all about the money.

They lose money on HMO's to buy the business and the Managed Care companies are just as guilty for getting into bed with LabCrap.

TRUTH!!!
 






Anonymous said:
16 & 18 only cause 70% of cervical cancers. LabCorp will not lose this case. And it's NOT the first time - for LH or other labs.
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WHat does 16/18 have to do with anything? There were two missed pap tests.

Insurance companies could care less. I bet actuaries proved that its cheaper to just do cheap pap tests and pay for the cancer treatments for some women that fall through the cracks.
 






I love the comment

"She was negligent for not getting a pap in 2009"

The only thing more insulting would be, "She was a slut and that's how she got that tumor in her gut." You know it's an STD...
 






Hope plaintiff attorney has done his homework, including the QA results of the cytotech(s) involved. The fact that the patient had no pap in 2009 is irrelevent since the 2008 pap was reported as negative. Tampa histology and cytology has many skeletons in the closet and it is time for their incompetency to be exposed.
 






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Hope plaintiff attorney has done his homework, including the QA results of the cytotech(s) involved. The fact that the patient had no pap in 2009 is irrelevent since the 2008 pap was reported as negative. Tampa histology and cytology has many skeletons in the closet and it is time for their incompetency to be exposed.
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So you know the pap was sent to Tampa?

This is on the Labcorp sucks website about Tampa back in 2008. Is it still a mess?

Tampa Fl Employee | 11 Oct 2008 1:26 am
I work in the Tampa fl lab. The place is dirty, disorganized, way to many errors are made. And the only thing our vp Rudy Mendez cares about is turning out work. He screams,yells and swears at employees all day long to get tests resulted now. He doesn’t care if there is a problem with the test a name error on the specimen… he wants the results out now. And because his bonuses are based on not spending the budget, working conditions here are substandard. iF THE DOCTORS DOWN HERE IN Florida saw where their cytology cases were being read they would never send them here. CAP inspectors, our own corporate people from Burlington, NC have called it unacceptable. There is no plan to move us, Rudy gets a bonus for keeping 20+ cytotechs in a leaking portable trailer in the parking lot. Which by the way Rudy’s GOOD friend Mark Doolittle owns the trailer and rents it back to lab corp at a nice profit. Mark is the Guy paid to do all maintaince on Lab Corp. He gets a salary, hires his own companies (his son and one worker) to do work. So he get a salary for being in charge of maintance, then gets paid to sub contract the job to himself, collects rent get paid to maintance the trailer in the parking he is Rudy’s Good friend at the same time for the past 30 years. I would think this would be an ethics issue.

Our specimens are labeled with barcodes, but Rudy didn’t feel we needed barcode readers. So for years we have been trying to read the numbers on the bar car and type them into the computer. Can’t tell you how many errors have been made with that. The lab is in total disrepair. There is one Man Mark Doolittle(should be Mark Do-nothing) in charge of all of Florida labs and service centers. He subs the work to his son and one other guy. Things don’t get down. They need a maintaince team. The same guy Mark Doolittle is also subcontracted to maintain offsite storage of patient information and specimens. I guess he rents storage units all over town, his wife works at them (another ethics issue) Lab corp is stuck with their 1970′s style of doing things, how they got a bad reputation in the first place.

We do not put out quality work…it is substandard. The pathologist reading the cyto / histo report are not competent in cytology…they failed their yearly profiency test. We are not turning out quality work just turning out work quickly. I have worked in two other companies and lab corp is by far the worst. More mistakes are made at lab corp in a week than than are made at quest in a year. Lab corp claims it wants to inprove their quality of work…but they are not open to any suggestion, It’s Rudy’s years of poor quality way or the highway.
 






Anonymous said:
So you know the pap was sent to Tampa?

This is on the Labcorp sucks website about Tampa back in 2008. Is it still a mess?

Tampa Fl Employee | 11 Oct 2008 1:26 am
I work in the Tampa fl lab. The place is dirty, disorganized, way to many errors are made. And the only thing our vp Rudy Mendez cares about is turning out work. He screams,yells and swears at employees all day long to get tests resulted now. He doesn’t care if there is a problem with the test a name error on the specimen… he wants the results out now. And because his bonuses are based on not spending the budget, working conditions here are substandard. iF THE DOCTORS DOWN HERE IN Florida saw where their cytology cases were being read they would never send them here. CAP inspectors, our own corporate people from Burlington, NC have called it unacceptable. There is no plan to move us, Rudy gets a bonus for keeping 20+ cytotechs in a leaking portable trailer in the parking lot. Which by the way Rudy’s GOOD friend Mark Doolittle owns the trailer and rents it back to lab corp at a nice profit. Mark is the Guy paid to do all maintaince on Lab Corp. He gets a salary, hires his own companies (his son and one worker) to do work. So he get a salary for being in charge of maintance, then gets paid to sub contract the job to himself, collects rent get paid to maintance the trailer in the parking he is Rudy’s Good friend at the same time for the past 30 years. I would think this would be an ethics issue.

Our specimens are labeled with barcodes, but Rudy didn’t feel we needed barcode readers. So for years we have been trying to read the numbers on the bar car and type them into the computer. Can’t tell you how many errors have been made with that. The lab is in total disrepair. There is one Man Mark Doolittle(should be Mark Do-nothing) in charge of all of Florida labs and service centers. He subs the work to his son and one other guy. Things don’t get down. They need a maintaince team. The same guy Mark Doolittle is also subcontracted to maintain offsite storage of patient information and specimens. I guess he rents storage units all over town, his wife works at them (another ethics issue) Lab corp is stuck with their 1970′s style of doing things, how they got a bad reputation in the first place.

We do not put out quality work…it is substandard. The pathologist reading the cyto / histo report are not competent in cytology…they failed their yearly profiency test. We are not turning out quality work just turning out work quickly. I have worked in two other companies and lab corp is by far the worst. More mistakes are made at lab corp in a week than than are made at quest in a year. Lab corp claims it wants to inprove their quality of work…but they are not open to any suggestion, It’s Rudy’s years of poor quality way or the highway.
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Things have not improved. Plaintiff attorney should seek out all corporate records of QA or lack thereof as well as investigating credentials and QA/QC of all cytotechs and pathologists. It should be a gold mine of information. The pathologists in Tampa are only there because no one else would hire them. Totally incompetent. I would never allow any family member's pap smear or biopsy be sent to Tampa even if I had to pay out of pocket for the specimen to be read elsewhere.
 






Do you work at Tampa?

Someone told me they were running a tighter ship there, but she had left her job about 4 years ago. I heard all the crazy stories. It sounded like the inmates running the asylum.

Some labs just dont understand that AP is not CP. People die when you try to run a pathology lab like the clinical side. It's much more than loading machines and walking away. I hate seeing women die of something so preventable.
 












Anonymous said:
Do you work at Tampa?

Someone told me they were running a tighter ship there, but she had left her job about 4 years ago. I heard all the crazy stories. It sounded like the inmates running the asylum.

Some labs just dont understand that AP is not CP. People die when you try to run a pathology lab like the clinical side. It's much more than loading machines and walking away. I hate seeing women die of something so preventable.[/QUOTE

The rest of the LC labs may have better aesthetics, but are basically run the same way. It is all about quantity and turn around time. This is the recipe for disaster. Was the imaging microscope involved? This is when the slide is first scanned by a computer which chooses 22 fields of view that are most likely to contain abnormal cells, infectious agents, and/or endocervical cells (glandular cells that indicate specimen adequacy in terms of being a representative sample) to be viewed on a special imaging microscope by the cytotechnologist. The cytotechnologist only sees the 22 fields of view, unless atypical cells are found in any of the fields of view. This would trigger a full manual review of the slide. Labs are using this method because it allows the technologist to legally screen twice the number of slides that are allowed to be read manually. Cytyc (now known as Hologic) actually wrote the legislation that made this possible. This was the only way that a lab go for the imaging machine because increasing in workload is the only way the imager is made profitable to a lab. Labcorp will only get out of this one if the Imager missed the case.That is, no atypical cells are present in any of the 22 computer determined fields of view. If that is the case, Hologic will take the hit. It would be way smart just to settle.

I just saw an Insitu Carcinoma case today that was missed by the Imager. NO ONE CARED and no one can blame the cytotech. We all know missed cases like this are inevitable under these workload conditions. I hate to see this kind of stuff happen, too. I wish this could be wake up call, but it is likely not. They just consider it collateral damage and the cost of doing business. This stuff does not happen because the managers, doctors and cytotechnologists, don't understand the risks. Their ethics are for sale. Greed rules.
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Anonymous said:
Things have not improved. Plaintiff attorney should seek out all corporate records of QA or lack thereof as well as investigating credentials and QA/QC of all cytotechs and pathologists. It should be a gold mine of information. The pathologists in Tampa are only there because no one else would hire them. Totally incompetent. I would never allow any family member's pap smear or biopsy be sent to Tampa even if I had to pay out of pocket for the specimen to be read elsewhere.
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The rest of the LC labs may have better aesthetics, but are basically run the same way. It is all about quantity and turn around time. This is the recipe for disaster. Was the imaging microscope involved? This is when the slide is first scanned by a computer which chooses 22 fields of view that are most likely to contain abnormal cells, infectious agents, and/or endocervical cells (glandular cells that indicate specimen adequacy in terms of being a representative sample) to be viewed on a special imaging microscope by the cytotechnologist. The cytotechnologist only sees the 22 fields of view, unless atypical cells are found in any of the fields of view. This would trigger a full manual review of the slide. Labs are using this method because it allows the technologist to legally screen twice the number of slides that are allowed to be read manually. Cytyc (now known as Hologic) actually wrote the legislation that made this possible. This was the only way that a lab go for the imaging machine because increasing in workload is the only way the imager is made profitable to a lab. Labcorp will only get out of this one if the Imager missed the case.That is, no atypical cells are present in any of the 22 computer determined fields of view. If that is the case, Hologic will take the hit. It would be way smart just to settle.

I just saw an Insitu Carcinoma case today that was missed by the Imager. NO ONE CARED and no one can blame the cytotech. We all know missed cases like this are inevitable under these workload conditions. I hate to see this kind of stuff happen, too. I wish this could be wake up call, but it is likely not. They just consider it collateral damage and the cost of doing business. This stuff does not happen because the managers, doctors and cytotechnologists, don't understand the risks. Their ethics are for sale. Greed rules.
 






i would like to see cytotechs and other lab workers charged with manslaughter in missed pap test cases. it is pathetic someone loses their life over this crap. put em in prison and maybe they will quit screening so many cases
 






Anonymous said:
I love the comment

"She was negligent for not getting a pap in 2009"

The only thing more insulting would be, "She was a slut and that's how she got that tumor in her gut." You know it's an STD...
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With a negative result on her pap in 2008, she was not supposed to have another pap before 2011 (3 years) per ASCCP & ACOG recommendations.

Labcorp misread the pap twice! Pretty bad
 












Anonymous said:
With a negative result on her pap in 2008, she was not supposed to have another pap before 2011 (3 years) per ASCCP & ACOG recommendations.

Labcorp misread the pap twice! Pretty bad
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That's only if she was asymptomatic. She clearly presented with symptoms which would have justified the annual follow-up pap.

This is a horrible, tragic story.
 






Anonymous said:
i would like to see cytotechs and other lab workers charged with manslaughter in missed pap test cases. it is pathetic someone loses their life over this crap. put em in prison and maybe they will quit screening so many cases
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Yes it is tragic, but you are blaming the wrong person. Why don't you blame Hologic or the legislators who sponsored the bill, voted for it, and created this travesty and why don't you work on changing it? Cytyc sales persons encouraged lab managers to fire cytotechnologists and increase the workloads of the remaining techs, and without an increase in pay. Oh, these greedy lab managers could not contain themselves.Could not pass it up.

How could labs treat techs this way? Econ 101...supply and demand. Nobody wants to join the the ranks of the unemployed, knowing that there are a lot of cytotechs who would like to have any kind of job.Do you see how that works? Do you get the picture yet?
 






Well hopefully HPV testing will get FDA approval for primary screening and end all of this. If cytotechs wanna keep on screening too many slides causing death and destruction, the field needs to be replaced.
 






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